At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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